Killahard
Killahard is a townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Coill Leathard.
- Area
- 32.3 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 12,316 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killahard, from 1,396 m² to 115,265 m² (11.53 ha, 28.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killahard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for (1) Retention of eight mobile homes for the purpose of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220806
27 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extentions to side and rear of same and to
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211378
21 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and a domestic garage/ store and a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201222
8 Apr 2020N/a
Permission for erection of an independent living unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200426
2 Mar 2020N/a
Permission for erection of an independent living unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200248
20 Dec 2019Refused
(1) RETENTION OF EIGHT MOBILE HOMES FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOUSING SEASONAL WORKS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191726
29 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN INDEPENDENT LIVING UNIT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191449
18 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS CARRIED OUT TO AN EXISTING PLAY SCHOOL (CONSIS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180043
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killahard.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killahard.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killahard.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Killahard, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killahard.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Killahard · Coill Leathard
- Area
- 322,731 m² (32.27 ha, 79.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleellis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybaun, Ballyroe (Nunn), Garrynisk, Mahanagh, Toberbeg
- Placenames
- Killahard on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.